[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Wed May 9 14:58:05 EDT 2018


On 05/09/2018 10:18 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can't imagine what anyone would think was a "bare metal" application
>> for UCSD P-system.  It was a "compile once - run everywhere" concept
>> like Java.
> 
> Anything running on the Western Digital Microengine (or any of a couple
> other hardware P-machines... gatech had a Pr1me 450 whose microcode had been
> diddled with to turn it into a P-machine).
> --scott
> 

I know the Western Digital Microengine.  But that is the concept
gone backwards.  That was bare-metal designed to run the P-System.

Lot's of Prime 50-Series had their microcode "diddled" to improve them.
Too bad Prime never allowed any of this stuff to see the light of day.

bill




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